MIME restructuring [was: Re: release-candidate/0.6]

Tue May 17 16:05:48 PDT 2011

On Mon, 16 May 2011 13:59:51 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> So what I'd love to see from here is a commit with a description like
> the above, and then a test case looking like your example.
> 
> From there, I'd next like a new version of the commit that gets the
> intended behavior with less code duplication.
> 
> I'll work on each of the above unless someone beats me to any of it. Let
> me know.

I've now pushed out my own version of the MIME restructuring feature.

It differs from what was presented here in avoiding the code
duplication.

It also provides properly nested mutlipart/* output for the
--format=text case. That's not that I expect anybody to *do* anything
with that nested output, just that it was cleaner and easier to fix both
text/json at the same time, (and avoiding doing that is perhaps what led
to the original code duplication).

I also cherry-picked in a piece of later patch from Jamie so that the
existing emacs tests still pass. And I updated the documentation for
this new feature.

So I'm happy with this new feature now, (which I know provides an
essential part of the basis for the rest of the crypto branch).

From here, I'm hoping that my review of the rest of Jamie's
release-candidate branch goes faster. The general shape of the commits
and commit messages looks pretty good to me, so I think it will.

I think there are still features added here and there without
corresponding test cases (multipart/alternative is one that comes to
mind) and perhaps without updated documentation (--decrypt is at least
documented---but I do think it's strange that it's documented to only
work for json output).